Weather-strip.



R. T. AXE. WEATHER STRIP. APPIYJCATION FIL ED AUG.1B-19l3.

Patented June 4, 1918.

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Application filed August 18, 1913. Serial No. 785,326.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROY T. Axn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Weather-Strip, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the production of a weather strip which is particularly durable and efiicient in use and it consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention reference is bad to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view, part1 broken away, of a window sash equipped with my weather strip, the contiguous part of the window frame being also shown.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view of this weather strip. 1

As will be understood by those skilled in the art, an end weather strip formed of a yielding or pliable material as rubber becomes ineflicient, as such a strip readily becomes permanently set in any position into which it may be flexed and permanent in dentations or serrations are formed therein when large particles of dust or cinders become interposed between the strip and the surface against which it seats.

By my invention the permanent setting of the strip and the formation of permanent indentations is prevented.

My weather strip comprises a yielding engaging strip and a backing therefor of resilient metal, the strip and backing being held at corresponding margins and having their opposite margins free.

1 is the engaging strip which is usually formed of rubber and arranged along one or both of the upper and lower end edges of a window sash which is movable vertically in a suitable frame 2, the strip 1 being arranged to come into engagement with the surface as 3 or 4 on the window frame or any other contiguous part on which surface the strip normally seats. The strip is secured along one of its margins to the end edge of the window sash and its opposite margin which engages the surface 3 or 4 is free from said end edge.

5 is the backing of resilient metal, having its free edge substantially flush with the free edge of the engaging strip 1. The engaging strip and its backing are held in position by a bar 6 which clamps the fixed margins thereof toward the window sash by screws 7 extending through the bar, the backing, theh engaging strip, and into the window sas When this weather strip is applied to the lower edge of the window sash the backing is interposed between the engaging strip and the lower face of the window sash. As here shown, with the weather strip applied to the lower face of the window sash the retaining bar 6 is angular to inclose the fixed edge of the engaging strip, and the weather strip is held in position by screws extending transversely through the bar 6 and the margins of the engaging strip and the backing and into the window sash.

By the use of the resilient metal backing, the rubber engaging strip is prevented from becoming permanently set or permanently indented or serrated.

As my Weather strip assumes its operative position upon the closing of the sash, the free portion of the strip moves as a whole crosswise of the surface against which it seats and also bends as a whole in a direction at an angle to said surface and the opposing faces of the strips 1 and 5, and in addition each of the strips 1 and 5 has like movements relatively to the other'strip, these movements of the weather strip as a whole and of its component members operating to produce a particularly effective seating of the weather strip and to preclude undue binding or cramping of the members composing the same.

What I claim is A weather strip comprising a flexible strip and a flexible resilient metal backing strip, the strips lying one upon the other and be ing fixed together at corresponding margins and adapted to be secured to a supporting member at said margins and having their other margins free from each other and the contiguous surface of the supporting member, said free margins when the Weather strip assumes operative. engagement with another member, having the outer parts of their opposing faces slidable crosswise of each otherand being bendable as .a, Wh0le testing; witnes ses,, at Syracuse, in the county or independently of etchothe'r'in a direct-i611? o-fOfibfl-i lhgu; the S'tateI' fN'eW York, this at an angle to that of the sliding movement 15th day of August, 1913. I of said outer pan-ts, substantially as and, for, v .RQY AXE- 5 the PuIPOsedeSGribed. Wit 'ssf t I Y In testimony whereof, I haveh'ereuntti' JAMES PARRISH,

signed my name in the presence of tweet- CHAS. H. YOUNG.

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